The rare gender-flipped variant can be found in Crime Zone, in which the demonic pure-blood vampires seek to make the main character Shiro their groom for some sort of sinister purpose. Vampires are both commonplace and well-known mass killers in this setting, so Shiro is understandably terrified and it's played dead seriously.

Prince Sincline / Lotor's main goal in GoLion, the Americanized Voltron, and all the sequel series, aside from taking over the galaxy, is to get Princess Farlanote Spelled "Fala" in Media Blasters' subtitled version. / Allura to marry him.

The lion-mouthed fiend Absalom tries to make Nami his bride after seeing her naked while she bathing. Using his Devil Fruit power of invisibility, he succeeds in abducting her and drugs her with sleeping pills so she won't refuse him at the altar. Thankfully Sanjiinterrupts to save her making it a Damsel in Distress scenario.

Vander Decken is another stalker who is after the Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi for his bride, forcing Neptune to lock his daughter away. He's got a good reason, as Vander Decken sends her love letters (and flying axes), believing he must either marry or kill her.

In Sailor Moon, Queen Beryl's obsession with Endymion/Mamoru is her motivation for almost everything she does, though by the end of the Dark Kingdom arc she's rather expanded her villain goals. This is most evident in the manga, where her unrequited love for Endymion and jealousy of Princess Serenity is what drew Metallia to her in the first place.

In Senki Zesshou Symphogear, after revealing that saving "Mankind" was just saving himself, Ver tells Maria they should talk later about repopulating the human race.

In Shinzonote The Macekred version of Mushrambo., the Reptile King Ryuma (one of the seven Enterran generals) decides to do this to Yakumo, the last living human, to prove his superiority over her. He says something to the effect of "Anyone can kill their enemy. Only the truly powerful can marry them", and further compares it to a snake wrapping a rabbit inside its coils and keeping it there instead of eating it.

In Speed Grapher, Kagura is forced to marry Suitengu after her mother dies, giving him control of the family fortune.

Used to absolutely nightmarish effect in Tokyo Ghoul:Re. Mutsuki is kidnapped by deranged Stalker with a Crush Torso, and told that they are going to be get married. What makes it even worse is that Torso reveals he's cut off Mutsuki's limbs, but not before giving his helpless "bride" a wedding ring.

Vampire Hunter D: In the first volume and the 1985 film, Count Magnus Lee is determined to marry Doris Lang.

In the Super Mario Bros. comic book, Bowser tries to do this to Peach several times. The top image comes from a scene in Super Mario Adventures where Bowser tells Peach she must marry him, accompanied with a threat of what he'll do if she doesn't.

In X-Men the Morlocks seemed big on this, at least at first. Originally there was a rare female example where Angel's Abhorrent Admirer, Callisto kidnapped him to force him to marry her, as seen here.

In the Walt Disney Zorro flick The Eagle's Gaze, the antagonist pulls one of these during the climax by threatening to torture a character's friend in front of her if she doesn't comply...

A Future of Friendship, a History of Hate: Megalos Tyrant (one of Ruinate's heralds) seduces Rarity in his public persona of Regal Rule, lavishing her with all the trappings of a royal lifestyle, and then proposes to her. She initially accepts, but when she realizes everything she'd be giving up to run away to his kingdom with him, she turns him down... at which point he attempts to kidnap her and force her to marry him. He nearly gets away with it, if not for the timely arrival of the other Elements of Harmony.

The Legend of Zelda fanfiction that features the sorceror Vaati, like in his appearance in Four Swords (See Video Games), seeking to make Zelda his bride. In some stories, though, he actually succeeds and becomes King of Hyrule.

Happens to Meg in Meg's Family when she sold her soul toLucifer in order to get on the cheerleading squad, with the intent of making Meg his bride. Of course, Meg's actual husband and Lucifer's son Zack and their daughter Maddie wouldn't have any of it.

In Harry Potter fanfic Do Not Meddle In The Affairs Of Wizards, after Harry is forced to return to Hogwarts, it is described how many girls plan to take advantage of his (supposed) lack of knowledge of magical customs to put him in a position where he is forced to marry them. Ginny Weasley takes it further than anyone, even taking a potion that gets her pregnant with Harry's child without having sex with him, expecting Harry to marry her for the child's sake. Unfortunately for her, Harry forces her to say the truth in front of witnesses and uses the life debt she owes him so that she will give birth and then give the child up and never attempt to contact him.

Nine hundred years earlier, Shendu forcibly took Lo Pei's daughter Lo Mei as his bride after killing the young man she lovedbefore her eyes, intending to father a legacy of his own. This is what caused Lo Pei to start the uprising that led to Shendu's imprisonment, though Lo Mei died in the process by her own hand when the grief over losing her lover became too much.

In Fan Fic/Drakigo- a variation of [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (film)]] with [[Kim Possible]] characters- after Shego Dracula is bitten by a vampire, he talks about how she will a queen of undying beauty by his side; trope is subverted as Shego immediately kills him out of anger at the implication that she would ever choose him over her dead love.

Discord and Fluttershy's relationship in Bride Of Discord starts out this way, after Discord asks for a bride as one of his demand, in exchange for not reeking havoc on Equestria, which Fluttershy volunteers for, but it becomes more mutually romantic by as the story goes on.

Films — Animation

Jafar tries to force Jasmine to marry him in Aladdin by hypnotizing her father so that he'll set up an Arranged Marriage. It's not entirely clear why he doesn't just Hypnotize the Princess; her father's rather Weak-Willed, and Jasmine is definitely not, so this way might have just been easier. (Even the Sultan does manage to snap out of Jafar's hypnosis on his own at least once.) This example is somewhat unique in that Jafar is really using her as a way to become Sultan. In fact, Jafar's original plan was to simply kill both Jasmine and the Sultan once the marriage had been carried out. Though Jafar was not above creeping on Jasmine after she thought Aladdin was dead and even asks Genie to make her fall in love with him when she was being defiant.

The Little Mermaid Ursula in a beautiful form hypnotizes Prince Eric. This is partly to prevent Ariel from fulfilling her bargain of making Eric fall in love with her in three days, and partly out of spite.

The evil penguin Drake from The Pebble and the Penguin demands that Marina choose him as a husband during the mating ritual, or go to a watery grave ("Right this way to the Drake estate / or write your epitaph!")

In The Scarecrow, Count Grisham plans to marry Polly so that he can take her money. Inevitably, the title character gets in his way.

The Swan Princess: The villain Rothbart once tried to take Odette's kingdom by force, but it didn't work out so well. So he kidnaps Odette and turns her into a swan every time the moon sets until she agrees to marry him and give him a legal claim to the throne. That doesn't really go his way either.

The Sheriff of Nottingham tries to do this to Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and even tries to rape her during the ceremony as Robin and crew are beating down the door.

Big Trouble in Little China: DavidLo Pan originally wants to marry and sacrifice Miao Yin so he can become solid again. Eventually he decides to marry both Miao Yin and Gracie Law, sacrifice Gracie instead and live out his Earthly pleasures with Miao Yin.

Beetlejuice: The title ghost's ultimate goal is to marry teenaged Lydia (a move that has Squick written all over it), because this will apparently allow him to stay in the world of the living indefinitely.

The Spanish Main involves a Dutch captain turned pirate king who discovers that the ship they're... procuring... has the bride-to-be of the Spanish governor. He marries her to get back at the governor for putting him in prison.

The Lone Ranger: Cole wants to marry Rebecca so that her son can become his heir, since he's implied to be a eunuch and can therefore not produce a son of his own.

No Man of Her Own: Helen's evil ex-boyfriend decides to blackmail her, saying that he'll uncover her secret identity if she doesn't marry him and give him her family's inheritance.

In To Kill a Dragon, the reason that Lancelot decides to interfere is that Elsa is being forcibly married to the Dragon (which would result in her death). When the Dragon is defeated, the Burgomaster becomes a ruler and wants to forcibly marry Elsa himself.

Kit is a rare male victim of this trope, with the Duke marrying him off to the Princess Chelina (how directly involved she is in all this is unclear.)

Strangely, in a twist, Lady Tremaine is at one point willing to force Cinderella to marry her prince... as long as she is made Queen Dowager. When Cinderella refuses to let her exploit the man she loves like she did her father, Tremaine leaves her in the tower room to rot.

Nothing but Trouble: The JP forces Christopher to marry his granddaughter Eldona, the alternative being execution for being a banker. He agrees to go through the ceremony since he figures it will give him an opportunity to escape, but after tying the knot he immediately get caught.

Literature

Many, many versions of the Robin Hood legend have the Sheriff or some other villain trying to do this to Marian.

In Being a Green Mother, Natasha rescues Orb from a forced marriage to Satan, where he is using a magic song to destroy her will, embodying this trope. Then, Natasha courts Orb through several Rescue Romance scenes. She falls in love with him for this, his handsome appearance, gentle demeanor and his lovely singing, and agrees to marry him. Then comes The Reveal...

The Scarpia Ultimatum is used for this in The Phantom of the Opera. It's an unusually sympathetic version, though — it's pretty explicit that Erik has no intention of raping Christine (the man seems to think of wives as pets or accessories that one takes on walks and buys pretty things for, rather than as sexual partners), and he actually calls the whole thing off himself.

In J.R.R. Tolkien's "Tale of Beren and Lúthien" (from The Silmarillion), Celegorm imprisons the heroine with the intent of marrying her, wanting to advance his political power in Beleriand. Fortunately, Lúthien manages to escape with some assistance from his dog.

Poor Aliena has deal with shit from Tom Builder's crap son Alfred who proposes to her and given her experience with William it's no surprise she turns him instantly down. However when she looses all her money, she forced to give in and accept his proposal. Fortunately Jack Jackson (Aliena's true love) comes to house on her wedding night and she takes his virginity away. This however gets her pregnant and Alfred enraged kicks her out of the house but she goes to Jack in France and Alfred dies later, allowing a consensual marriage to happen. So it all turns out okay.

The show changes it to Aliena's younger brother Richard allowing Alfred to marry her, so she won't be poor. Which is the complete opposite of h reaction to Alfred's unwanted advances on her in the book.

In 1634: The Baltic War, Eddie Cantrell has fallen totally in love with Anne Cathrine, the 15-year-old daughter of the King of Denmark, but fears his love to be hopeless due to her jailbait age (he is 20) and social standing. When escaping a destroyed prison, he and Anne Cathrine do a great deal of This and That for two days, leading the person to believe he is going to be executed, as the King reads a huge scroll of serious charges against him. But, when he realizes this trope is being offered, he is ecstatic. (So is Anne Cathrine.)

In 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar tries to kidnap the Hapsburg princess Maria Anna (who has just run away from her previousArranged Marriage and is currently very close to his own territory) in order to reinforce his status when he sets himself up as an independent ruler. The plan doesn't really go anywhere, and he even provides her and hew new intended with free passage and an escort led by the officer whom he sent to capture her in the first place, figuring that if he can't have her, he might as well get some decent PR out of the whole mess.

It is part of Celimus' plan to take over the world in Fiona McIntosh's Quickening Trilogy. He first sends the hero to ask the princess of the neighboring country's hand in marriage, but also sends mercenaries to kill the king so she has no choice but to marry him, since her country is too weak and she's too young for a war. Of course, the main character falls in love with her, but he only manages to save her in the nick of time between her marriage and the wedding night, due to a rather annoying curse.

The Reynard Cycle: Reynard's nemesis, Duke Nobel, plans to marry a captive Countess in order to unify two warring states. The plan works.

Sansa is at first thrilled about her betrothal to Prince Joffrey, but it quickly turns into this trope when it becomes clear the Lannisters intend to hold her to the bargain even after Joffrey has her father executed in front of her. Wide-Eyed Idealist though she is, Sansa is very much aware of the Marital Rape License and what it means for her situation. She gets out of marrying Joffrey once they realize Margaery Tyrell is a better political match... so they marry her off to Joffrey's uglier uncle Tyrion instead. Fortunately, Tyrion is a much nicer guy than his nephew, and refrains from raping her on their wedding night.

In The Virgin in the Ice, a young heiress fights off the Big Bad, knowing that if he succeeds in raping her she will be forced to marry him and her life and fortune will be in his hands.

It shows up again in The Rose Rent. When the wealthy widow Judith Perle disappears, it's feared that she faces "marriage by rape".

The heroes (sort of) of the Deryni novels pull this one — in The Bishop's Heir, the rebel princess is kidnapped, held captive, and then told she must marry protagonist King Kelson (so that her claim to lands will be once again joined to his royal line). He tells her he wants her to agree "willingly", but it's made clear to the user that he will apply Mind Rape if necessary. She's killed instants after saying her vows, so the issue of sex is never dealt with. It's presented as the only way to end a protracted and bloody civil war, which continues in the following book until all possible rival heirs are dead. and Sidana chooses to cooperate. She is also given several weeks of wedding preparations to get used to the idea and notice that Kelson is a more than presentable young man.

In The Innocent, the lead Elinor fights off a rapist with the help of a serf. The creep was the cousin and lover of the wife of Elinor's dying brother; if he had succeeded, he could have claimed Elinor as his wife, giving him access to her lands. The cousin and the sister-in-law had further plans that would have ended with them married and in control of the lands.

Near the end of A Brother's Price, Kij Porter and her sisters kidnap Jerin Whistler for this purpose. With his Royal Blood, they'd have a shot at the throne if the women already on it were all killed. He promises that if they don't kill his companion, a thorn in their side for ages, that he will marry them willingly, please them in bed, never run away or tell the sordid tale to anyone, and care for their children. He is lying like a rug and escapes at the first opportunity.

In the Old Icelandic Saga of Hrolf Kraki, King Helgi of Denmark takes Queen Olof of Saxony hostage and tries to force her to marry him. It doesn't work.

Prince Kai in the Lunar Chronicles is a rare male example. Queen Levana is determined to get a legitimate claim over Earth via marriage to an Earthen leader. First she tries to withhold the antidote for the Letumosis virus from him, then threaten his Love Interest Cinder's life to force him to marry her. At the end of Scarlett, she succeeded but in Cress, Cinder stopped the wedding by kidnapping Kai.

John Carter of Mars: This happens twice with Dejah Thoris. In the first book, she is pressured into marrying a prince from a rival city-state in order to spare her realm from being destroyed by his armies. In the third book, she ends up taken to a foreign land whose tyrant declares he will make her his queen.

In The Queen's Thief, the king of Sounis wants Hamiathes' Gift, a mythical artifact that legitimises the owner to rule over neighbouring Eddis. While the artifact is so ancient that he could not hope to wrench power from the ruling queen (whose ancestors have ruled without it, too), he hopes to be able to bully her into marrying him. Considering that protagonist Gen has been employed by the king of Sounis to steal said artifact, the reader is not quite sure whether to hope that Gen succeeds. Later is turns out that Gen has not been unwillingly dragged along but had plans of his own ... which do not involve handing the Gift over to Sounis.

In Lucy Daniel Raby's Nikolai of the North, there is a more rare version since both parties involved are pretty villainous. Volpo, The Dragon to Wicked Witch Magda, tells her that he'll only reveal his genius Evil Plan to capture the heroes if Magda agrees to marry him. If she doesn't, he won't help her at all with anything anymore. Since Magda is the World's Most Beautiful Woman (after certain dark magic, that is) and Volpo is horrendously ugly, she's not very enthusiastic about it. They announce their engagement as the Evil Plan seems to succeed, but then Big Damn Heroes kill them off before things can progress further.

"Marsha Queen of Diamonds/Marsha Scheme of Diamonds": Marsha blackmails Batman into marrying her or Robin will be her prisoner forever. The marriage would be a case of Loophole Abuse. Marsha's original plan was blackmailing him into letting her into the Batcave so she'd gain access to the bat-diamond but even for Robin he wouldn't break his vow (never revealing the Batcave's location to any strangers) so she demanded the marriage to make herself no longer a stranger.

"King Tut’s Coup/Batman’s Waterloo": King Tut kidnaps socialite Lisa Carson to make her Queen of the Nile.

"Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin": The Penguin does the same to Barbara Gordon with the belief that his new father-in-law Commissioner Gordon will grant him immunity to arrest.

In the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a demon threatens to kill everyone in Sunnydale and make Dawn his “queen”. He relents when it's revealed the terms of his summoning would actually make Xander his bride.

Anya: I've seen some of these Underworld child bride deals, and they never end well. Well, maybe once.

A strange version occurs in Farscape. John is, unfortunately, the only male able to give a princess healthy children and she must marry in order to become Empress. John is fully prepared to let her down gently, but the current Empress gives him a choice: marry her daughter, or let Scorpius play with his brain.

A rare female-on-male version when Daenerys forces Hizdahr to marry her after imprisoning and threatening to execute him in "Kill the Boy", hoping the marriage will placate her enemies. She later tells Tyrion she may not resort to killing him.

Similar to Jeyne Poole's situation who is Adapted Out from the show, Sansa is forced to marry Ramsey Bolton, of all people. However, this is part of Littlefinger's schemes to take control of the North. It's actually worse than that when during their wedding night, Ramsey rapes Sansa and as a result, Theon/Reek helped her escape.

Lord Zedd suddenly decided he wanted to marry Kimberly in one episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, leading to a completely failed attempt to hypnotize her. And by failed, we mean that Kimberly uses her acting lessons to give a truly Rita-worthy performance that scares the hell out of the bad guys, buying the others time to rescue her.

Robin Hood starts with Marian leading Guy of Gisbourne on for information, but Guy ends up developing this for her which actually culminates in her death.

An episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called "The House of Quark" has the Klingon Grilka kidnap Quark and force him to marry her at knifepoint. This is a relatively sympathetic version, as Grilka's only doing it to maneuver her family out of a political crisis that was partly Quark's fault in the first place. It quickly turns into a more equal partnership, with Quark using his cunning and financial skills to help her resolve the situation, and afterward she gladly divorces him and they part on good terms.

In Tinsel, Kwame Mensah gets Telema Duke to marry him by holding his testimony — the only chance for her on-again/off-again lover, Soji Bankole, to escape a Murder One conviction — to ransom.

In Newhart, Larry once revealed that his dad was very persistent in courting his mom until she said the words he longed to hear, "Okay, untie me and I'll marry you." This worried the rest of the cast as he began courting Stephanie. Fortunately, when asked about it, Larry admits that what his dad did was "just weird".

LazyTown had the "evil dude" creates a love potion for his "usual damsel in distress", to make her fall in love with him & get married.

In The Tribe, Ram takes an interest in Ebony when he finds out that she is his lieutenants Java and Siva's younger sister, both of whom he has already married. He tries to persuade her nicely at first by presenting her with gifts and noting how much power she would gain by it, but eventually gets fed up with her reluctance and pretty much gives Ebony an ultimatum to make up her mind. She ultimately chooses Ram's good-hearted Dragon Jay instead.

In one episode of Red Dwarf, the guys must trade with a grunting, Yeti-like tribe of G.E.L.F.s to obtain some vital equipment. The tribe's chief demands that Lister marry his daughter in return. He ends up going through with the ceremony, but runs out before consummation.

On 'Allo 'Allo! Denise Laroche of the Communist Resistance forces Renee to marry her somewhat unintentionally - Renee won't refuse because she killed the only other man who ever broke her heart. She doesn't even think there is a question of him refusing, because she believes they are star-crossed lovers, not realizing that Renee Really Gets Around (the marriage is eventually sabotaged by three of the other women in line to marry him) and that he barely remembers her name.

Frontier Circus: In "The Courtship", the Southern Belle who runs the town attempts to force Casey to marry her by impounding all of the circus' equipment and animals.

Myths & Legend

Classical Mythology: As the ancient Mediterranean is one of the places where marriage by abduction was a perfectly acceptable real-world practice, it's referenced all over the place in Greek and Roman mythology.

Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, kidnapped Persephone to be his wife, persuading her to bind herself to the underworld by eating the food of the dead. However, Alternate Character Interpretation applies.

The traditional account of the founding of Rome has Romulus kidnap the women of a neighboring tribe, the Sabines, so that his followers could have brides. As Romulus explains to the kidnapped women, this is perfectly justified and really all their fathers' fault, because the Romans had come as respectable suitors and the Sabine men had rejected them for no good reason. And to be fair it's not like the Sabine daughters would have had any choice in who they married in the normal way.

Virgil has the Roman men excusing themselves on the grounds of their desperate desire for wives and the Sabine women's beauty and virtue. They follow this up by making much of their captives and not laying a finger on them til they freely consent. By the time the Sabine Dads finally show up their daughters are happily married and many of them mothers. All this suggests that even the Romans felt the original story needed softening.

The Trojan War supposedly started this way, with Paris' abduction of Helen, although the ancient accounts differ on whether Helen was actually kidnapped or went along willingly.

Norse Mythology: A giant named Thrym steals Thor's hammer and demands that the gods gave him Freyja as his wife in return for Mjölnir. Instead, on Loki's advice, the gods dress up Thor as Freyja to trick Thrym into returning the hammer and then using it to kill him.

KaneforcedLita to marry him after Matt Hardy, her then-boyfriend both on-screen and off, lost his match with Kane. Lita marrying Kane was the stipulation if Hardy lost. Unlike his Kayfabe brother, he actually succeeded in forcing Lita to marry him, though she dumped him for Edge a few months later, and the storyline was retconned after Matt Hardy came back.

It Came from the Late, Late Show. In the adventure "The Iron Fist of Shao-Lin vs. the Dragon Ninjas", the villain Omu Yogwatzi kidnaps the Damsel in Distress Lotus Blossom and tries to force her to marry him.

In The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio forces Katherine into an arranged marriage by telling her father that she had agreed to marry him but they had made a bargain that she would pretend to hate him around other people. Her father buys it, taking the idea that characters in comedies are always gullible Up to Eleven.

In All's Well That Ends Well, Helena, a lovestruck commoner woman, saves the king's life and is granted a boon. She asks to marry the snobby nobleman Bertram, and the king orders him to go along with it against his will. In this case Helena isn't actually a villain at all, as (a) Arranged Marriage was pretty normal at the time the play was written, and (b) Bertram manages to be such a massive tool that it's pretty much impossible to feel sorry for him; if anything most people pity Helena for having such bad taste.

Big Willy: Well, you cain't up and marry her jest 'cause she cain't pay her rent! Jidder: Oh, cain't I? It says I can right here in this Lease! Big Willy: That lease'll never hold up in court! Jidder: Yes it will. And don't call me Liesl!

Video Games

In Castle Crashers, the leader of the Coneheads is attempting to marry the Green Princess against her will when you show up.

In Crusader Kings II, tribal chiefs and pagan, Zoroastrian, and Dharmic rulers can force captured women to be their concubines, even married women. Naturally this incurs a nasty relations penalty with the woman, her relatives, and her husband (if she has one), and such concubines are often helpful to those wishing to assassinate the ruler.

Dante's Inferno has Lucifer tricking Beatrice Portinari into marrying him, which forces her beloved Dante to go to Hell and save her. According to the animated adaptation, he had taken several women as his brides across the millenia such as Cleopatra, Salome and Helen of Troy before Beatrice. Its revealed that the marriage is just a ploy, he used her as a bait to lure Dante to Hell and release him from his prison.

Dragon Quest VII plays with this in Verdham, where this creates a Love Dodecahedron: Linda agrees to an Arranged Marriage with Iwan, the son of the richest man in town, in order to clear her late parents' debt to him. However, while Iwan loves Linda, Linda loves Pepe, who works as one of Borlock's gardeners. Interestingly, Borlock is shown to be a Reasonable Authority Figure who is completely unaware of the Dodecahedron, and it's outright stated that if made aware of the situation, he would probably cancel the marriage and find some other way of dealing with the debt. Unfortunately, that's not what happens.

Celes has to agree to marry Setzer to get the party access to an airship. Or rather, she makes a wager on a coin toss: Heads they get his ship, tails she marries him. When he loses and realizes she's using a coin with two heads he's so impressed he joins the party.

A more straight example is in the opera in the game, where the princess Maria is being forced to marry the prince of the conquering kingdom for the sake of unification despite her beloved Draco still leading an insurrection to free them.

Seymour forces Yuna to marry him in Final Fantasy X, though the implications of it are ignored (partially since he's dead. But then again, he was alive when he proposed to her in the first place). It gets worse when you consider that his reason for doing so is to be used as the basis for her Final Aeon, thereby becoming the next Sin and destroying the world.

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride: Edgar is kidnapped by his wicked aunt, brainwashed, and transmogrified again (this time to impersonate the Troll King) and in his confused and morally compromised state, he kidnaps Rosella, transforms her into a troll, and tries to pull this trope himself, but it's arguable as to if he was actually serious about it, or just very confused and knew on some level that Rosella was someone he could trust.

In the The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, Vaati's plan to take over Hyrule starts with him kidnapping Zelda to make her his bride. That she was a Princess made Vaati want even more.

LeChuck is always trying to do this to Elaine Marley in the Monkey Island games.

In Pinball Quest, Lord Beezelbub has kidnapped Princess Ball and plans to marry her in three days. No fair guessing what the player has to do.

In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, General Tsao captures the Panda King's daughter and forces her to marry him against her will. She escapes thanks to the Cooper Gang, and Tsao ends up almost married to Carmelita.

In the Super Mario series, Bowser's schemes, more often than not, were made to forcibly marry Princess Peach, both to consummate his control over the Mushroom Kingdom and to be with his Villainous Crush.

In Super Mario RPG, Bowser hasn't kidnapped the Peach, it's actually a man named Booster. While it seems sinister, as it turns out, Booster has no idea what a wedding actually means, and plans on leaving Toadstool after the party is done. After he eats the wedding cake, he heads off with his minions and is never heard from again.

A rare gender-flipped version of this occurs in the Spider-Man 3 game, where Priscilla, leader of the "Arsenic Candy" gang, attempts to marry a man against his will.

Maximilian seeks to marry Princess Cordelia in Valkyria Chronicles as part of his takeover of her kingdom. Unfortunately for her, even after revealing her family bloodline is a lie he's still bent on taking her as a bride.

Gilgamesh to Saber in Fate/stay night, though his true intents towards her are considerably more perverse.note He intends to force the contents of the Grail down her throat and "make her pregnant with it", just to see the "violated look" in her eyes. Naturally, this doesn't sit well with Saber.

In Girl Genius it was suggested that Agatha's grandmother married one of the old Heterodynes, to protect her family from harm. It apparently later backfired, when she tought their sons how to use their Sparky powers for good not for evil and at the end poisoned her husband.

Female-on-male version in Homestuck: !Evil! Jane Crocker explains her intent to force a captive, terrified Jake English to marry her, sire her children and rule a galactic empire at her side.

After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out. If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you! Never, do you hear me, NEVER!!!", I will say "Oh well" and kill her.

Gorgeous Gal in the cartoon "A Fine Feathered Frenzy". She places a newspaper ad saying she's looking for a husband. Woody calls her and instantly gets turned on by her lovely voice, but when he meets her it turns out she's a featherless crow five times his size and three times his age. Woody's no longer interested but for Gorgeous Gal it's love at first sight. Hilarity Ensues. After a long chase, she manages to trap him on a submarine with a priest who actually succeeds in marrying them despite Woody's protests. Gorgeous sails off with Woody for their honeymoon.

In the cartoon "Red Riding Hoodlum" a tall elderly decaying woodpecker called Granny spots an intruder in her house. Once she notices it's a Wolf she rushes to her powder room. Granny loses her glasses, curls her eyelashes, puts on a red wig and a red shade of lipstick. Now looking much younger and prettier she grabs the Wolf, leans him back and plants a giant kiss on his lips. The Wolf is stunned to be embraced in her arms and smooched but Granny is smitten as indicated by the little hearts floating around her and beating. We are not sure how much time passes but in the next scene she is wearing a blonde wig and a wedding dress happily getting married to the Wolf. The Wolf doesn't seem too thrilled about it though.

In the Daffy Duck cartoon "The Super Snooper" a beautiful red headed duck took an immediate interest in the detective Daffy was portraying. Reffered to as 'The Body,' she spent most of her time in the cartoon flirting and forcibly kissing Daffy. Eventually Daffy noticed that she literally had balls with chains in her eyes, indicating she wanted to get married even though they just met. Wishing to remain a bachelor, Daffy ran through a closed door and The Body ran after him. The holes their bodies left on the door where that of a bride and groom, implying that she does manage to seduce and marry him.

In the Quack Pack episode "Gator Aid" a gigantic non anthropomorphic alligator named Antionette fell in love with Donald Duck. She chased after him puckering her lips while Donald did his best to try to get away from her. Eventually Daisy, Donald and his nepews get captured and tied up by others. Antionette stops by and Daisy says she can do whatever she wants with Donald if she frees them. So Antionette puts on a wedding veil! Later she gives Donald a wedding ring too. They don't actually get married and it's never made clear how Donald managed to get out of it. While sitting on top of him she gave him a big smootch on top of his head and that's about as far as they go on camera.

The Ice King in Adventure Time is a rather bizarrely sympathetic character despite having this trope as pretty much his entire motivation. It's not like he's in love with his target — in fact he doesn't seem to really care which princess he marries as long as he can marry one. He seems to just genuinely want to be Happily Married, and he's apparently completely unable to comprehend that kidnapping or hypnotizing a random princess and marrying her against her will is not a way to achieve that.

In the first Futurama series finale, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings," after the Robot Devil is forced to swap hands with Fry, he pulls off a complex Gambit Roulette in order to obtain Leela's hand...in marriage. Fry, out of concern for Leela, agrees to return the Robot Devil's hands — and since that was his real goal all along, the Robot Devil calls off the marriage.

In X-Men, Bella Donna forces Gambit to agree to marry her by threatening his family in the Thieves' Guild. With the X-Men's help, the threat gets annulled, so Gambit is able to walk away.

In the very first Popeye cartoon, Bluto demands this from Olive when he kidnaps her.

A reversal occurs in the Al Brodax Popeye cartoon "College Of Hard Knocks." Popeye defeats Professor Brutus at a school for higher education, and Olive hands him what he thinks is a diploma. It turns out to be a marriage license.

Popeye: YEOW! (to us, worriedly) I needs me spinach!

In Superman: The Animated Series, Lady Maxima, alien ruler of Alermac, selects Superman as her mate after he defeats her in a fight. Superman tells her point blank that she can't just force someone into marriage; her response is to use her alien tech to knock him out and drag him back to her home planet. Fortunately, a citizen uprising derails her marriage plans.

Occurs in the pilot episode of Gravity Falls, when a bunch of gnomes want Mabel to become their queen.

In The Fairly OddParents!, the first of appearance of the singer Chip Skylark has him being captured by Vicky, one of his fangirls, who chains him up and, of course, tries to marry him. Timmy helps him escape and he ends up writing a hit song about how horrible she is.

In The Smurfs episode "Smurfette's Dancing Shoes", the nameless treasure-hunting imp who is after the Treasure Of The Ancient Trolls forces Smurfette to marry him in exchange for giving her the titular shoes that she can never remove. When the Smurfs confront the imp and demand him to release Smurfette, he gives them the challenge of collecting three items from Dreadful Hollow before the sun rises. Although the Smurfs succeed in the challenge, the imp refuses to let Smurfette go, requiring Papa Smurf to use a magic spell to cast the magic dancing shoes on the imp instead.

Season 2 of The Legend of Korra; Bolin is stuck in a Pitbull Dates Puppy relationship with Korra's cousin Eska, so he goes to her to try and break things off. She notes that they have become somewhat distant... which she plans to rectify by marrying him that night. Bolin's only response is to sob as she drags him off, although he does make a break for it at the first opportunity (Eska doesn't take this very well).

One of the first Mighty Mouse cartoons with Oil Can Harry and Pearl Pureheart has Harry attempting to marry Pearl throughout the cartoon, only for the minister to get constantly pre-empted.

Bully The Crud tries to get Lydia to marry him in the Beetlejuice episode "Pest O' The West."

In the Tiny Toon Adventures movie, a trio of alligator sisters decide to marry Buster, and clearly don't care whether he wants to or not. When their father gives the blessing, he even waves off Buster's protest that marrying all of them would be bigamy.

The Beatles: In "Can't Buy Me Love," John is consigned to marry a Polynesian tribe chief's daughter after he accepts a ring the chief had sent as a token of friendship. John (who at that time was already married to Cynthia Twist) escapes and hides out in a pineapple factory where he's canned with the other pineapples and delivered to the tribe chief. Marriage is imminent, until the chief's daughter calls it off because "he smells of pineapple. And I hate pineapple!"

Two other interrupted forced marriages: Paul to a vampire girl in "Baby's In Black," and Ringo to a gypsy queen in "What You're Doing."

Ivanhoe: The King's Knight features this a few times with Prince John towards Lady Rowena. One time even involves her being under the influence of a potion.

The plot of the two part My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "A Canterlot Wedding" is this when Princess Cadance is discovered to be Queen Chrysalis and is using the wedding as a way to feed off Shinning Armor’s love for Cadance which weakens Canterlot's defenses allowing her army to invade. The real Cadance works with the Mane Cast to free her groom and then expel the invaders.

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